Flawed TPP in danger of being floored by compromises: critics

Japanese negotiators acting on instruction from Japanese politicians appear to be fighting hard against agricultural tariff liberalisation.

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Tokyo

SUPPORT is growing for a ministerial meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), according to Japan's minister of economy, trade and industry Akira Amari. But any agreement that emerges from the long-delayed negotiations could be be very different from that originally envisaged...